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American mathematician John Milnor was awarded the Abel Prize in mathematics Wednesday. Among his many achievements, Milnor proved the existence of exotic seven-dimensional spheres. Robert Siegel ...

John Milnor remembers arriving at Princeton University in 1948 as an introverted, "rather socially maladjusted" freshman who had a hard time making friends. But he soon found a home in the Math ...

When Stony Brook University mathematics professor John Milnor learned he had won the internationally prestigious Abel Prize and its nearly $1-million award, he immediately thought how he'd spend some ...